Some have been influenced by the movie Avatar, Jeff Meldrum said, whether they recognize it or not. Autumn Williams, for instance, depicts Bigfoot as a kind of noble savage who shuns the use of technology and lives communally.

One of the Editor’s 2010 Choice Awards for the “Best of New England” have gone to the International Cryptozoology Museum. The definition of quirky is idiosyncratic, offbeat, eccentric, unusual, unconventional, unorthodox, and strange. We can live with that.

Can you guess how many individual items the museum has on exhibition? Images.